How trusts can make a difference

We are always seeking to continue to build relationships with trusts and foundations that are interested in the work of WaterAid, and that share our aims and values. If you are a trustee or have links with a charitable trust, please get in touch. You could help us to help more people in the developing world transform their lives and take the first steps out of poverty.

Your support could enable us to achieve the following:

£210 pays for a shallow well handpump which will be used by 90 people in rural community in Malawi.

Hawa Salimua is 18 years old. She is newly married with no children yet. She lives in Mzalule Village, Salima District, Malawi, where WaterAid has helped to install a handpump that supplies safe water for the village. "I collect water from this handpump three times a day, in the morning, afternoon and late afternoon. I use the water to wash my clothes, bathe, cook and clean. The water is much sweeter than it used to be when it was an open well. It was dirty then, but now it's clean. We used to have a bucket on a string that we pulled up from the well and debris used to fall in which caused people to have terrible stomach pains. Now those stomach pains have vanished and it feels so hygienic to be drinking this water. I feel that my children will be born into a much better future because of this clean water."

£800 pays for three health workers (including training) to promote good hygiene practices to 2500 people in rural communities in Nepal.

Twenty-one-year-old Sarita Chaudhary is a health motivator appointed by WaterAid's partner NEWAH in Malahanma, Nepal. "I enjoy working as a health motivator because I am interested in field work and working with women. I teach people to clean their hands after using the latrine. More people in the community became interested in building latrines after they received health education. Now, more clean water is used by women for cleaning and cooking. If women learn, the village will be clean."

Before NEWAH launched the health promotion project, there was only one latrine in Sarita's village. Now there are 50.

£5000 would pay for the materials to construct 1000 environmentally friendly ecological sanitation latrines in Zambia.

Clement Cheepa lives in Choobana village, Zambia, where WaterAid has helped households to construct latrines, so that now nearly everyone in the village has one. "This latrine has helped us very much. I like this sort of latrine for many reasons: it is simple to construct, I can build it myself, and it is also cheap to build too." Since taking part in the project we have seen various changes here. The numbers of diseases have decreased and our hygiene has improved. We now pour water to wash our hands before we eat and after we have gone to the latrines and this has also helped us to reduced diseases.

£25,000 could pay for a year of one of our urban projects in Bangladesh, helping slum communities gain access to safe water and sanitation.

Hasina is 30 years old with two daughters and is caretaker for the sanitation block in Tajgoan slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh. "My understanding of cleanliness has totally changed since getting the new sanitation block in my slum. I know so much more now. As caretaker for the block I earn 600 taka per month which is paid for by the community. Before this job I was unemployed. Before getting this sanitation block I used to be lucky to get a wash once every three days. I had to travel to the market and buy 20 litres of water for one taka which was even more money back then considering I had no regular income. I would have to carry this home quite some distance. I would also wait for the rain and stand in the rain for a wash. Now I bathe every day and feel so much more clean and comfortable."

£125,000 would fund a year's activities in Tanzania's rural Tabora region, working to achieve district-wide water, sanitation and hygiene coverage.

Tabu Kapipi lives in Chessa village, Tabora. She is 48 years old and has been collecting water since she was just five. Tabu is now the treasurer of her community's water and sanitation committee, since being elected unanimously at a public meeting held in the village. "Water is really a problem for women as they do the cooking, laundry, domestic tasks, fetch drinking water and are responsible for the health of their children. Men do fetch water too now that there are handpumps, but they use bicycles to carry it. They never carry it on their heads. Water has really helped to improve people's health, especially by reducing cases of diarrhoea. Now that people have clean water their hygiene status has improved. I wish that there were a health facility nearby, as people have to travel a long way for medical help, especially pregnant women."

WaterAid is committed to providing trustees with a high standard of service. We offer detailed information that fits with a trust's specific area of interest, as well as regular update reports following a donation, whether a trust provides general funding or has made a gift that is linked to a particular country or project.

If you would like to find out more information about how a charitable trust or foundation could help developing-world communities find their way out of poverty and gain hope for a better future, please email us, telephone 020 7793 4500, fax 020 7793 4545, or write to the address at the bottom of this page.

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